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It is not an easy task to predict the behaviour and future of regional and global markets at the best of times. So now, in the wake of the global financial crisis, when there is deep uncertainty and concern surrounding how far reaching the effects will be, such crystal...

Past Microwave Journal articles provide a fascinating look at the life and times of our industry and how we have weathered economic and social change. This fifth installment in our series recounts the 1990s, a decade that is still clearly visible in our recent memories. In the world at...

Developers of Software Defined Radio (SDR) waveforms are fortunate to have a myriad of high-performance technologies and targets available for waveform implementation in heterogeneous DSP and RF architectures. The challenge is how to co-design RF architectures together with baseband signal processing to create high performance and flexible SDR architectures...

Noise considerations are a key factor in the design of radio systems of all types and designers expend much effort in reducing system noise. Testing radio systems by inserting white Gaussian noise along with the signal has been a recognized test method for decades, but there are surprisingly few...

The US Army awarded Raytheon Co. and Boeing a $125 M contract for the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) program. The contract funds a 27- month technology development program to develop and fire three prototype missiles with fully integrated tri-mode seekers. “There is an urgent warfighter need to field this...

Lockheed Martin announced the successful delivery of a space communications system that will bring more accurate and timely decision-making information to the US Air Force Space Commanders. This upgrade to the Combatant Commanders Integrated Command and Control System (CCIC2S) communications processing system enhances space message delivery reliability to and...

Northrop Grumman Corp. has completed integrating all electronics units of the payload module for the third Advanced Extremely High frequency (EHF) military communications satellite. The company is under contract to provide three communications payloads to advanced EHF prime contractor Lockheed Martin, Sunnyvale, CA. The Advanced EHF system will provide...

Harris Corp., an international communications and information technology company, introduced the first tactical satellite terminals with the capability of transmission/reception of TOP SECRET global wideband data communications. These new terminals are designed to military standards for operation in harsh environments. The new Harris RF-7800B Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN)...

UK-based fabless semiconductor company Lime Microsystems has joined the Femto Forum, the independent industry and operator association that supports femtocell deployment worldwide. The Forum promotes the adoption of femtocell technologies through open standards, market education and ecosystem development. The working groups’ mission is to ensure the rapid and effective...

The GSMA has launched the Green Power for Mobile programme with the goal of helping the mobile industry use renewable energy sources to power 118,000 new and existing off-grid base stations in developing countries by 2012. Achieving that target would save up to 2.5 billion litres of diesel per...